"How predictable. I'm centauri, and I don't approve this message."
Reworded: "I'm Centauri, and back in the glory days of the Republic, the proclamations of our emperors would make the galaxy stand still and even the earless Narn would pay heed."
I am less against "universal health care" as a concept than I am trusting the corrupt American bureacracy to impliment it. Beyond that, there are the corrupt proposals (in which some proposals were dangerous scams before the bureacrats ever got to them). Worst of these was the Hillary plan, which detailed criminal penalties for those who tried to see a doctor. Senator Rostenkowski (a Democrat) eventually pointed out that it was a scam and was being sold to the public with a figure that was less than 1/3 than the cost Hillary knew it would entail.
Maybe the Canadian government could implement for us. Do you really want to trust the health of all of us to the organization which has brought us the thriftiness of the Pentagon, the respect-for-rights of the FBI, the public transparancy of the CIA, the timely delivery of the U.S. Postal Service, and the warm human compassion of HUD?
At this point, we are supposed to mumble something about "out of context" and "Fox News made this up", and then we start a conversation about Halliburton.
"You're so proud of him that you've decided to back him anonymously. Bravo. For all we know you might be the president"
Nah. If it was him, the message would be something like "We found the WDMs and made Iraq safe for democrity. That is why I am ^H^H^H^ back the Prepsodent."
"That's probably understandable - with problems in the fishing industry"
Looking at my spam box, it is clear that phishing is, however, a growth industry. What better for the out of work Newfie cod fisherman to make a new living catching unsuspecting Citibank customers?
Ah. I see that Windows CE is designed for propagation of the next generation of computer viruses, which are transmitted by chroniton particles, warp fields, and censor array scans. More worrisome are the ones that you pick up while in the transporter beam.
No wonder they lost the search engine wars. They check into odd things like thus, but even now their search results still do not have caching. That's the one thing that keeps me going back to Google again and again. Wish they would fix the deficiencies first.
I can see both sides here.
On one side, there is "let them fend for themselves", even if they wreck their own lives.
On the other side, there is the idea of having the government do all this for them whether they like or not. Some will scream about the "nanny state!".
Just one little quibble: call it "government-controlled" pension instead of "social pension". It sounds more honest that way.
Una Persson? Great nick. I'll mark you friend (despite the disagreement on search results!), just as I did "Gaf the Horse in Tears".
I have never found it useful, as I only search looking for pages containing what I asked for. The "horror author" turns to "horror writer" sounds like an even worse case of sloppy irrelevant results!
"Try searching for it as a phrase, since that is what you're looking for"
I didn't outright say (other than put quotes in my description of the problem1), but the phrase searches were done with quotes. That is how you search for a phrase.
"I'm no expert, but could this lead to 'problems' down the line similar to the way Microsoft has cornered the PC market."
"Have" has been corrected to "has" in the above sentence. Last time I looked at PCs being sold, many were Dells and "E", but none were Microsoft. Unless you want to count the Xbox as a mutant PC, they don't even sell PCs, let alone corner the market.
You are right about Google. If they fixed their bogus result problems, I'd never have to use another search engine again.
Google has a problem of returning many results that do not even contain the phrase being looked for. See "miserable failure" for a famous example. 3 of the top 10 results for "to be or not to be" do not even contain the phrase. Altavista, while it has fewer results, worse ads, and no cache, has no problem getting 100% relevant results for both searches. It's a bad bug when you search for phrases containing a phrase and the results do not even contain it.
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"Social Security is equated as a tax for welfare. It's not. It's a form of pension"
I know. Sometimes, I think it should be replaced with something that is the first, but not the second.
"Today's workers pay the pension of yesterdays workers, as tomorrow's workers will pay the pension of ours. It's not a tax."
Regardless of these details, it is by definition a tax, since the government is forcing you to give it money.
"With regard to making the tax cuts permanent and cutting the deficit in half"
No manna needed. All you need to do to cut the defecit in half is to cut waste spending. Hiking taxes would clobber the economy and cause worse defecit problems. However, as many said, Bush "spends like a drunken sailor", so he has (to say the least) not been a help to the defecit problem. (Kerry would have been even worse, as his budget called for even more spending).
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"I can't think of any Western country without a form of SECURED government provided pension, and as far as I'm concerned, it's a lynchpin."
Just because other countries do it, does it mean it is a good idea for the government to forcibly micro-manage the retiremen finances of everyone, especially those who are not indigent or needy? Is that really necessary?
Keep counting. If you correlate these numbers with the counts of "umm err" in the debates and the number of smirks in press conferences, the numeric relationships can be used to decode the mysteries of the universe.
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"I'm Al Gore, and I took the initiative in creating this message and also in creating the medium."
Some of this can be explained by the natural cryogenic properties of the Canadian environment.
Reworded: "I'm Centauri, and back in the glory days of the Republic, the proclamations of our emperors would make the galaxy stand still and even the earless Narn would pay heed."
Maybe the Canadian government could implement for us. Do you really want to trust the health of all of us to the organization which has brought us the thriftiness of the Pentagon, the respect-for-rights of the FBI, the public transparancy of the CIA, the timely delivery of the U.S. Postal Service, and the warm human compassion of HUD?
At this point, we are supposed to mumble something about "out of context" and "Fox News made this up", and then we start a conversation about Halliburton.
Nah. If it was him, the message would be something like "We found the WDMs and made Iraq safe for democrity. That is why I am ^H^H^H^ back the Prepsodent."
"Mirab, with sails unfurled?"
"If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free." - P J O'Rourke (1947- )"
Well, mod me down. there it is! It just was not coming up in the yahoo searches I did. Someone moded me "interesting" without checking.
"Greifers always blast meesa ears!"
Looking at my spam box, it is clear that phishing is, however, a growth industry. What better for the out of work Newfie cod fisherman to make a new living catching unsuspecting Citibank customers?
Ah. I see that Windows CE is designed for propagation of the next generation of computer viruses, which are transmitted by chroniton particles, warp fields, and censor array scans. More worrisome are the ones that you pick up while in the transporter beam.
Even though the actual result is more likely to be pink and greasy, it was still worth a laugh. Thanks.
No wonder they lost the search engine wars. They check into odd things like thus, but even now their search results still do not have caching. That's the one thing that keeps me going back to Google again and again. Wish they would fix the deficiencies first.
Ringgg!!! Ringgg!
[drop dinner fork and answer] Me: Hello?
Outsourced Telemarketer: Xddeedxx dffrt
Me: What?
Outsourced Telemarketer: Wuddub xuxvvux zazzxue!
Me: Oh?
Outsourced Telemarketer: Dferguh Zuul. Juju fvuv.
Me: Why, of course! I'll buy a hundred!
I can see both sides here. On one side, there is "let them fend for themselves", even if they wreck their own lives. On the other side, there is the idea of having the government do all this for them whether they like or not. Some will scream about the "nanny state!". Just one little quibble: call it "government-controlled" pension instead of "social pension". It sounds more honest that way.
Una Persson? Great nick. I'll mark you friend (despite the disagreement on search results!), just as I did "Gaf the Horse in Tears". I have never found it useful, as I only search looking for pages containing what I asked for. The "horror author" turns to "horror writer" sounds like an even worse case of sloppy irrelevant results!
I didn't outright say (other than put quotes in my description of the problem1), but the phrase searches were done with quotes. That is how you search for a phrase.
"Have" has been corrected to "has" in the above sentence. Last time I looked at PCs being sold, many were Dells and "E", but none were Microsoft. Unless you want to count the Xbox as a mutant PC, they don't even sell PCs, let alone corner the market.
You are right about Google. If they fixed their bogus result problems, I'd never have to use another search engine again.
Google has a problem of returning many results that do not even contain the phrase being looked for. See "miserable failure" for a famous example. 3 of the top 10 results for "to be or not to be" do not even contain the phrase. Altavista, while it has fewer results, worse ads, and no cache, has no problem getting 100% relevant results for both searches. It's a bad bug when you search for phrases containing a phrase and the results do not even contain it.
I know. Sometimes, I think it should be replaced with something that is the first, but not the second.
"Today's workers pay the pension of yesterdays workers, as tomorrow's workers will pay the pension of ours. It's not a tax."
Regardless of these details, it is by definition a tax, since the government is forcing you to give it money.
No manna needed. All you need to do to cut the defecit in half is to cut waste spending. Hiking taxes would clobber the economy and cause worse defecit problems. However, as many said, Bush "spends like a drunken sailor", so he has (to say the least) not been a help to the defecit problem. (Kerry would have been even worse, as his budget called for even more spending).
Just because other countries do it, does it mean it is a good idea for the government to forcibly micro-manage the retiremen finances of everyone, especially those who are not indigent or needy? Is that really necessary?
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It might also be because of top politicians' consumption of that wonderful Ukrainian delicacy: dioxin-and-borscht soup.
Keep counting. If you correlate these numbers with the counts of "umm err" in the debates and the number of smirks in press conferences, the numeric relationships can be used to decode the mysteries of the universe.